April 29th, 2025, 8:59 pm
I believe "rural water" generally means water from wells, as opposed to "city water," which generally means water that has been treated and inspected and ruled safe to drink.
I would guess that "rural water" is a magic phrase over complaints about contamination from fracking, etc. Same with "safe drinking water," with that more general to include "city water" that isn't fit to drink.
"Runoff," generically, is just water and anything else carried with it in floods or heavy rain. Probably it's included as a magic word over factory farms, especially hog farms, where they have big pits of manure that from time to time overflow due to rain and kill all the fish in nearby creeks.
So apparently in addition to their DEI infatuation they want to piss on any environmental initiatives.